February 08, 2014

Thomas B. Edsall discusses Thomas Piketty's forthcoming Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Apparently, Prof. Piketty's book looks at capitalism's tendency to generate inequality of sufficient extremity that it stirs up political dissent and threatens democratic values, or something to that effect.

Here's a video in which Prof. Piketty briefly summarizes his book:

This is definitely a timely book, one that I plan on reading as soon as it becomes available.